291, No. 5-6
Alfred Stieglitz
July-August 1915
Medium
journal with reproductions of drawings (letterpress)
Dimensions
Three sheets, each: 43.9 x 28.9 cm (17 5/16 x 11 3/8 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
New Century Fund
Accession Number
2006.25.6
About the Artist
Alfred Stieglitz · 1864–1946
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a pioneering American photographer, art dealer, publisher, and advocate for the Modernist movement who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to German Jewish immigrant parents, Stieglitz spent his formative years studying mechanical engineering in Berlin, where he discovered photography in ...